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Daily Digits June 19
Sports history is made every day of the year. We will preserve at least a small sampling from some great athletes every day based on the uniform number they wore.
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June 19, 1846 - The First officially recognized baseball game was played in Hoboken, New Jersey. The contest was played under the Knickerbocker Rules which are also known as Cartwright Rules after the then seated President of the Knickerbocker Club, Alexander J. Cartright in Septmber of 1845. There is not much clarity on the contest but it appears that the Knicks played and lost to a team by the name of the New York Nines or NY Gothams by the score of 23 to 1.
June 19, 1938 - Pittsburgh Pirates legend Paul Waner, wearing Number 11 crushed a homer off of Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Pete Sivess to carry the Pirates to an 8-0 victory over their cross state rivals.
June 19, 1942 - That same Paul Waner earned his 3000th hit becoming only the seventh player at the time to reach such a lofty MLB milestone.
June 19, 1943 - The Steelers and Eagles merge agreement officially ended. Yes I guess you could say the Steagle had landed.
June 19, 1952 - The Brooklyn Dodger's Carl Erskine, Number 17 in the program that day, tossed a no-no against the Chicago Cubs, in a 5-0 victory for Dodger Blue.
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A Very Special thanks to information obtained from the following brilliant internet sites: On This Day Sports, the Sports Reference's family of website databases & Stathead.com.
Banner photo is courtesy of Wikimedia Commons of an illustration of Nebraska Baseball circa 1910.
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